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Autonomy and automatons: managed care in the USA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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Managed care is a phrase on the lips of every US psychiatrist. Some believe that this revolution in health care has brought US doctors kicking and screaming into the age of ‘cost-effective’, ‘evidence-based medicine’ (Mechanic, 1997). But most psychiatrists I interviewed from Boston, San Francisco and New York, thought it had transformed them from autonomous professionals to automatons.
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